Wednesday 9 September 2009

canada part two


board game fun with the family.

cedar visits calgary and gives garden work a go.

dinnendahl men.

happy grandpa and grandson.

the gangs all here when oma has a quick stopover on her way home to saskatoon.

bike riding along the bow river.

huge rainbow over the calgary skyline.

the best way to spend a summer's day in calgary, floatin' down the elbow river.

baby jack rabbit in our garden.


weekend visit to pigeon lake and christy's farm...just south of edmonton.

brother david.

papa franz with a sketch done by opa.

best campsite ever, on highwood river...just outside the rocky mountains.

spot our blue tarp on the left.

eating well...

day hike up to plateau mountain.


the flat top of plateau mountain...looking west to the great divide.

lost the trail on the way down but made it in the end.

looking east from the pass on highway 532, known as 'the hump'.

campfire back at our site.

indian paintbrushes all along our path as we ascend raspberry ridge.

on the ridge...



between the rocky mountains and the praries is 700km of highway known as the cowboy trail. ranching families first settled in the area in 1880 and turned it into cattle country. yahoo. yeehaw.

brother david and his football (soccer) team play a league match in mcmahon stadium.

and so the fun begins at the annual south coutry fair, just outside fort macleod.

thanks to all the good people at the kasbah site for everything!

bev and daughter ellen.

stilt horse.


sara and ellen dancin' away...

...jenny enjoyin' the tunes...

jah youssouf and the woodchoppers association...

...the very entertainin' united steel workers of montreal...

...dylan on guitar with the screamin' jimmys.

chillin' and listenin' to mark & john jammin' back at our site.

moody skies on the road home from the fesival.


good eats with the boulis family and friends from aussie land.

golfing with geoff, nicole, zimmer, larissa, dallas and katherine...


a lovely feast at the copeland's.

ahhh...here's what we look like after two years of marriage.